--- title: "Go Newsletter Issue #108" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 108 published_at: "2016-05-05" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/108" --- Go Newsletter 108 . [Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/108) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 108 — May 5, 2016 Featured [Go Best Practices, Six Years in](https://peter.bourgon.org/go-best-practices-2016/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A great set of insights and tips from an experienced Go developer. This has been getting a lot of love on social media and is a must read. Peter Bourgon [The Go 1.7 Freeze Begins Now](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-dev/lcvpM-vAoE8/pj9M7k77CgAJ?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Go 1.7 is on the way, so minor bugfixes and new features are now discouraged. “An explicit goal is to ship the first beta on time, by May 31.” Russ Cox [Barcelona Full Stack Fest 2016: Problems of today, ideas from the future](https://2016.fullstackfest.com) Barcelona Full Stack Fest 2016 is a conference for curious developers looking to expand their horizons. We're offering Super Early Bird tickets at a discounted price until May 14th - exactly when the [Call For Papers](https://2016.fullstackfest.com/call-for-papers/) ends. Full Stack Festsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/09745bfd.jpg)](https://2016.fullstackfest.com) [Jet: A Template Engine Designed for Speed](https://github.com/CloudyKit/jet?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Based on text/template, supports template inheritance, block imports, and more. The author claims it outperforms other popular engines when templates are not pre-compiled. Henrique Santos [Writing a Compiler in Go](http://squanch.org/writing-a-compiler-in-go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial An attempt at porting Jack Crenshaw’s famous _Let’s Build a Compiler_ text to using Go (instead of the original Pascal). Dan Crowley-Wilson [goserv: A Toolkit for Web Applications in Go](http://goserv.it/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A toolkit that provides a layer over the net/http package to make building web applications easier. Marcel Gotsch Jobs [The Easiest Way to Find a Job](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=petercooperpress&utm_term=cat-tech-go&utm_content=easiest&utm_campaign=q2-16-gonewsletter&utm_location=us) Hired lets you sit back while job offers come to you. When you complete your profile, instantly apply to 3,500+ companies on the platform who will contact you with job offers, including salary and equity up-front. [Try it today.](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters=petercooperpress=cat-tech-go=easiest=q2-16-gonewsletter=us) Hired.​com In Brief [Brad and Andrew are looking for Go packages to review on their show](https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/727699236012232704?s=09&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Brad Fitzpatrick and Andrew Gerrand occasionally produce [videos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG-UaBJXZ80) where they review Go packages. Submit yours to be considered. Twitter [Graduating to Go](https://medium.com/ladies-storm-hackathons/graduating-to-go-2ee900b4ed8b?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) story “I’ve compiled the five experiences that I enjoyed the most as I got started in Go.” Kaylyn Gibilterra [Testing in Go From The Ground Up: The Basics of Go Testing and Testify](http://csfortheslothful.blogspot.com/2016/05/testing-in-go-from-ground-up-part-1.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Computer Science for the Slothful [Getting Started with the Otto JavaScript Interpreter](https://www.fknsrs.biz/blog/otto-getting-started.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A JS engine written in Go. Conrad Pankoff [Download free eBook: Continuous Integration and Delivery with Docker](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/continuous-integration-continuous-delivery-with-docker?utm_source=goweeklysecondary) tutorial In this free book we look at how to set up a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Docker and containers. Codeshipsponsored [Comparing Go with Java (from a Java Dev's POV)](https://javax0.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/comparing-golang-with-java/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Peter Verhas [go-haproxy: Go Library for Interacting with HAProxy's Stats Socket](https://github.com/bcicen/go-haproxy?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code bradley cicenas [Fix: A Fast, Comparable Fixed-Point Type with int64 Numerator and Denominator](https://github.com/fncodr/godbase/tree/master/fix?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code fncodr [go-watson-sdk: Go SDK for IBM Watson services](https://github.com/liviosoares/go-watson-sdk?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Livio Soares [A Fork of /x/net/http2 Providing HTTP/2 Server Push for Go](https://bradleyf.id.au/dev/go-http2-server-push-fork/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Bradley Falzon [StatusOK: Local Server Monitoring and Uptime Notification](https://github.com/sanathp/statusok?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Written in Go. Sanath Kumar Pasumarthy [rure-go: Go Bindings to Rust's Regex Engine](https://github.com/BurntSushi/rure-go?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Andrew Gallant [grimd: A Fast DNS Proxy for Ad and Malware Blocking](https://github.com/looterz/grimd?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code looter [go-finance: Simple Financial Markets Data in Go](https://github.com/FlashBoys/go-finance?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Brings together a variety of sources (such as Yahoo’s Finance APIs). FlashBoys [150x Faster SQL Analysis](http://www.launchbit.com/taz/11162-6361-111) tools Get up to 150x faster queries with Periscope’s caching system. Periscope plugs directly into your database. No ETL, no uploading, no copying, no hassle. 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